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TIL Dendrophilia is the sexual arousal from trees.

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xVDWo TIL Stephen Hawking saw a future in which the rich would use genetic engineering to make themselves smarter, more disease resistant and likely to live longer. “Once such superhumans appear, there will be significant political problems with unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete", he wrote.
j6ZpX TIL In the 2008 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, two contests both named Rachel made it to the final. To avoid confusion when calling on the contestants to answer, one of them went by Steve for the games.
wMwE TIL ‘Queen’s Brian May Uses A Sixpence British Coin Instead Of A Guitar Pick… and occasionally uses its serrated edge against the strings for certain sounds.’
jNpan TIL that the most expensive liquid in the world, is a thoroughbred horse semen. A gallon of gold-medal-winning Big Star's semen is worth $4.7 million.
l7VGN TIL about the 1944 film To Have and Have Not. It was based on a Ernest Hemingway novel, and William Faulkner was the main contributor to the screenplay. It's the only film in history in which two winners of Nobel prize in literature worked.